AN outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in Majorca which claimed the life of a British tourist and affected 19 other British holidaymakers has been traced to a hotel Jacuzzi. Health officials on the island revealed they had identified the source in … Read More
France and Germany are blocking a Brexit deal, David Davis has suggested, as he listed five European Union countries that want to “move on”. The Exiting the EU secretary told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that Britain would not compromise … Read More
JEAN-CLAUDE Juncker has demanded further expansion of the EU despite widespread anger at the bloc’s federalist stance. The unelected European Commission president made the plea after bizarrely claiming the EU’s current rate of growth is “mediocre”. Speaking as he collected … Read More
The standoff between Spain and the leaders of Catalonia, its autonomous northeastern region, has worsened in recent days. A new future awaits the region after December 21, the date Spanish Prime Minister Mariono Rajoy has set for elections for the … Read More
If there is one thing the Spain vs Catalonia conflict reminds us of, it has got to be Turkey. And that is a much bigger problem for the EU than it realizes. First of all, Brussels can no longer insist … Read More
Hitler meets Francp in 1940, in Hendaye on the French-Spanish border. ‘Germany and Spain today find themselves confronted by ghosts of the past.’ Photograph: KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images History is back in Europe. The Catalan referendum and the German election illustrate this spectacularly. The … Read More
NIGEL Farage has claimed the European Union is starting to “resemble the old Soviet Union” after refusing to condemn the violence by Spanish police that left more than 850 people injured amid unrest at the Catalan independence referendum. Spanish police … Read More
SPAIN’S former foreign minister launched a scathing attack on the UK claiming Britons “don’t know what they want” over Brexit. Marcelino Oreja is renowned as being one of the most committed experts on the European Union, having been on one … Read More
A knife-wielding man has been shot dead in the center of Brussels after authorities said he attacked a group of soldiers. The prosecutor’s office confirmed the soldiers shot and killed the man in the Belgian capital. The incident is being … Read More